Improvement in plant-sprinklers



A. SOHRADER.

Plant-Sprinkler.

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). my 1 I Patented June 24,1879.

fnrenior UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST SOHRADER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO GOODYEAR RUBBER OURLERCOMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN PLANT-SPRINKLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 216,808, dated J unc24,1879 application filed April 2]., 1879.

' been made with flexible tubes, bulbs, a nd jettube.

My invention relates to a plant-sprinkler in which a rose-sprinkler iscombined with a bulb, a flexible tube, and coupling-valves, and

in which a loose collar at the lower couplingvalve is provided with ahook for suspending a small pail containing the water or other liquidwith which the plant is to be sprinkled, so that the said pail will besuspended in its proper position to the sprinkler, and can be moved fromplace to place and introduced among the flowers while the wateringprogresses. y

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the sprinkler, andFig. 2 is a section at the line m w.

The bulb a is of india-rubber, and it is connected to the rubber tube bby the screw-coupling c, in which is the valve d, opening toward thebulb. This coupling 0 is. made in two parts, screwed together, so thatthe valve cl may be introduced or withdrawn, and also in order that thering 0 may be placed around the outside of the screw-couplings, betweenthe two flanges 2 and3 of said couplings; and there is a hook, f,hanging from a lug at one side of the ring, upon which book the smallpail his suspended, with the tube 1) extending down into the liquid, andprovided with a tubular metallic tip-piece, i, that keeps the tube downinto the water.

At the upper end of the bulb a there is a screwcoupling, l, with anoutlet-valve, n; and m is a sprinkler or rose, screwed into thecouplingZ.

It will now be evident that the bulb a can be grasped and the syringeoperated by squeezing the bulb in the hand to eject the water throughthe rose in line spray or jets upon the plants. The expansion of thebulb draws the liquid into such bulb through the tube 1).

The small pail or vessel h, being suspended from the syringe itself,does not require to be handled separately, but it is always in its placefor supplying the syringe, and can be carried with the syringe inbetween the foliage, and only requires one hand to'sustain the pail andoperate the syringe in sprinkling or washing plants.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination, with the rose-sprinkler m,of the bulb a, out-letvalve n, and coupling l at one end of the bulb,and the inlet-valve d and tube 1) at the other end of the bulb, therose-sprinkler being secured into the coupling, substantially asspecified.

2. The combination, with the bulb-syringe and sprinkler, of the ring 0around the coupling c, and the hook f, for suspending the vessel h,substantially. as set forth.

3. The plant-sprinkler formed of the bulbsyringe, the sprinkler m, andthe vessel h, sus pended from the syringe, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 17th day of April, 1879.

A. SOHRADER.

Witnesses:

SIXT. CARL KALPFF. EDWARD L. HEW

